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Feature #13317

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Pluggable PDF export engine

Added by Evgeny Seliverstov about 11 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.

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New
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Normal
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Category:
PDF export
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Description

Redmine could support multiple PDF export engines provided in form of redmine plugins.

Administrator could choose different PDF export engines for different projects or system-wide. The main alternative to the currently used PDF export is a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf - redmine_pdf_wiki plugin. wkthmltopdf is a PDF renderer that uses an internal qt webkit browser to display provided HTML and to save it to PDF so it looks exactly as the original HTML.
I recently fixed redmine_pdf_wiki to work with Redmine 2.x and to replace standard PDF export (monkey patched wiki_page_to_pdf). I noticed that RFPDF is a plugin and it is already carefully facaded with Redmine::Export::PDF. I think it is relatively easy to support an external PDF export plugin.

Current approach is to issue PDF instructions from a ruby code. It is lightweight and safe solution but when heavy and highly accurate PDFs are needed it could be better to use wkhtmltopdf. It is a native program with several major issues but I hope they will be fixed in future.

Please check an initial discussion with Terence Miller in pull request

Related issues

Related to Redmine - Defect #8753: PDF export for Hebrew is reversedClosed2010-07-15

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